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+# gnu.org/glibc — host-independent build
+
+`glibc` packaged as a relocatable bottle that ships its own `ld-linux*.so` and
+`libc.so.6`. The build deliberately consumes **only pkgx-supplied tools** so
+the build host (whichever distro CI happens to use) cannot leak into the
+result.
+
+## Verified build matrix
+
+Builds run in `debian:bookworm-slim linux/amd64` with **no compiler installed
+via apt**. pkgx (v2.10.3) is the only thing the container learns to do. It
+resolves the toolchain from `dist.pkgx.dev`:
+
+| Tool | Version pulled by pkgx |
+|---|---|
+| `gnu.org/gcc` | 16.1.0 |
+| `gnu.org/binutils` | 2.46.0 |
+| `gnu.org/make` | 4.3 |
+| `gnu.org/gawk` | latest |
+| `gnu.org/bison` | latest |
+| `gnu.org/gettext` | latest |
+| `gnu.org/texinfo` | 7.3.0 |
+| `gnu.org/sed`, `coreutils`, `findutils`, `grep`, `diffutils`, `patch`, `m4` | latest |
+| `perl.org` | 5.42.2 |
+| `python.org` | 3.14.5 |
+| `kernel.org/linux-headers` | 7.0.9 |
+
+Glibc versions built end-to-end (configure + make + install + smoke
+test) on both architectures with the pkgx-only toolchain stack:
+
+| Version | linux/x86-64 | linux/aarch64 | Toolchain | Notes |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| **2.43** | ✅ | ✅ | pkgx gcc 16 + pkgx binutils 2.46 | Latest upstream. |
+| **2.42** | ✅ | ✅ | same | Equals current `nixpkgs` master. |
+| **2.41** | ✅ | ✅ | same | Matches the `v2/gnu.org/glibc/v2.41.0.tar.xz` on `dist.pkgx.dev`. |
+| **2.38** | ✅ | ✅ | same | |
+| **2.34** | ✅ | ✅ | same | manylinux_2_34 / RHEL 9 baseline. |
+| **2.28** | ✅ | ✅ | same | manylinux_2_28 / RHEL 8. Nix cache patches skipped (Makefile diff). |
+| **2.27** | ✅ | ✅ | same + `-fcommon`, `CFLAGS-regexp.c=-fno-common` | RHEL 8.0 ship. |
+| **2.24** | ✅ | ✅ | **cascaded gcc 7.5 + binutils 2.28** | manylinux_2_24 / Debian 9 ship. See "HPC bootstrap cascade" below. |
+| **2.17** | ✅ | ✅ | **cascaded gcc 7.5 + binutils 2.28** + configure-sed for make 4.x | manylinux2014 / CentOS 7 / HPC baseline. |
+
+Each bottle's smoke test was the same: link a test program with the
+bottle's `crti.o + crt1.o + crtn.o + libc.so.6`, set `--dynamic-linker`
+to the bottle's own `ld-linux-<arch>.so.<N>`, then run on multiple
+hosts including Alpine 3.18 (musl, no glibc anywhere). Every run
+returns:
+
+```text
+gnu_get_libc_version() = <bottle-version>
+```
+
+Cross-distro hosts verified for the dual-arch matrix above:
+Alpine 3.18 (musl), Debian 11 (glibc 2.31), Ubuntu 22.04 (glibc 2.35),
+Rocky Linux 9 (glibc 2.34). 7 versions × 2 arches × 3-4 hosts = 50+
+positive smoke runs.
+
+## HPC bootstrap cascade (2.17, 2.24)
+
+The two manylinux baselines below 2.27 require **older gcc + older
+binutils than what pkgx ships in `dist.pkgx.dev`** (gcc 10.5–16.1,
+binutils 2.39–2.46). The fix is to bootstrap-cascade vintage
+toolchain bottles using only pkgx-supplied tools.
+
+Empirically validated cascade on linux/aarch64 (this session, native
+Apple Silicon Docker arm):
+
+```text
+pkgx gcc 16 + pkgx binutils 2.46
+   │
+   ├─→ builds glibc 2.43 bottle (Phase η: the host-independence proof)
+   │
+   ├─→ builds gcc 9.5 (sysroot = glibc 2.43 bottle;
+   │      --disable-bootstrap, --disable-lto, --disable-plugin;
+   │      patchelf cc1/cc1plus RUNPATH to find mpc/mpfr/gmp from pkgx)
+   │
+   ├─→ builds binutils 2.30 / 2.31 / 2.32 (each with gcc 9.5,
+   │      pkgx binutils as assembler, patchelf PT_INTERP/RUNPATH)
+   │
+   ├─→ builds gcc 7.5 (using gcc 9.5; with custom specs file
+   │      forcing --dynamic-linker=/opt/glibc-2.43/lib/ld-linux-...;
+   │      LDFLAGS=-Wl,-rpath,$mpc_etc baked into all built binaries;
+   │      removed era-mismatched include-fixed/bits/{fcntl,statx,...}.h)
+   │
+   ├─→ builds binutils 2.28 (with gcc 7.5)
+   │
+   └─→ builds glibc 2.24 + glibc 2.17 (with gcc 7.5 + binutils 2.28;
+          BUILD_CC=gcc --sysroot=glibc-2.34 to keep build-time tools
+          like rpcgen linked against a libc binutils 2.28 understands;
+          2.17 needs a 1-line sed on configure for make 4.x regex.)
+```
+
+Cross-distro confirmed for both new bottles on Alpine 3.18 (musl),
+Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04:
+
+```text
+glibc-2.17 aarch64: gnu_get_libc_version() = 2.17   (3/3 hosts)
+glibc-2.24 aarch64: gnu_get_libc_version() = 2.24   (3/3 hosts)
+```
+
+### Recipes for the cascaded toolchain
+
+The bottles produced (gcc 9.5, gcc 7.5, binutils 2.28, 2.30, 2.31,
+2.32) are valid pantry candidates. The pantry recipes for them would
+look broadly like:
+
+- **`gnu.org/gcc` `~7.5 || ~9.5`** — extend `versions:` to accept old
+  tags; add per-version `script:` step prepending CC/CXX with
+  bottle-as-sysroot flags, applying `--disable-bootstrap --disable-lto
+  --disable-plugin` for these older versions, and post-build patching
+  the specs file + `include-fixed/bits/{fcntl-linux,statx,...}.h`.
+- **`gnu.org/binutils` `~2.28 || ~2.30 || ~2.31 || ~2.32`** — extend
+  `versions:` and `distributable:` to accept the older tarball
+  extensions (`.tar.gz` and `.tar.bz2` instead of `.tar.xz`).
+
+### linux/x86-64 status
+
+The same cascade was executed on linux/amd64 under Rosetta emulation
+(slower but mechanically identical):
+
+1. Built gcc 9.5 in the `linux/amd64` pkgx container.
+2. Built binutils 2.28 with gcc 9.5.
+3. Built gcc 7.5 with gcc 9.5.
+4. Built glibc 2.24 + 2.17 with gcc 7.5 + binutils 2.28.
+
+Two extra fixes were needed compared to aarch64:
+
+- `strip --strip-debug` on `libgcc*.a` and `crt*.o` from gcc 7.5 before
+  using them — gcc 7.5 emits zlib-compressed `.debug_info` sections
+  that binutils 2.28's `ld` can't decompress (the zlib decompression
+  support was added in binutils ~2.36). Stripping makes the static
+  archive consumable by old `ld`.
+- `BUILD_CC="gcc --sysroot=/tmp/sysroot-x86-64-g34 -Wl,--dynamic-linker=
+  /opt/glibc-2.34/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2"` to handle the `rpcgen`
+  bootstrap that needs to link against an old-enough libc.
+
+Cross-distro verified for both new x86-64 bottles on Alpine 3.18
+(musl), Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04:
+
+```text
+glibc-2.17 x86-64: gnu_get_libc_version() = 2.17   (3/3 hosts)
+glibc-2.24 x86-64: gnu_get_libc_version() = 2.24   (3/3 hosts)
+```
+
+Total verified matrix: **9 versions × 2 arches × 3+ hosts = 60+
+positive smoke runs** across the recipe.
+
+## Pre-bootstrap-cascade notes (for posterity)
+
+Two manylinux baselines below 2.27 do **not** build with this recipe
+plus the current pkgx toolchain (gcc 16.1, binutils 2.46, linux-headers
+7.0.9):
+
+- **glibc 2.17** (manylinux2014 / CentOS 7 / HPC) — `configure` fails
+  at "C preprocessor /lib/cpp fails sanity check" + "checking for gcc
+  option to accept ISO C89... unsupported". gcc 16 no longer accepts
+  the `-traditional` / strict-C89 mode the era expected, and
+  `debian:bookworm-slim` does not symlink `/lib/cpp`. The historical
+  fix (verified in the `pkgm/notes/` Phase θ campaign) is to build
+  with `gcc 5.4 + binutils 2.26` on `ubuntu:16.04`, plus a 1-line sed
+  patch to `configure` for the `make 4.x` regex (already in this
+  recipe).
+- **glibc 2.24** (manylinux_2_24 / Debian 9) — `sunrpc/rpcgen` is a
+  build-tool that needs the host's `stdio.h`. The recipe's `-nostdinc
+  -isystem $pkgx/linux-headers/include` regime cuts that off. Older
+  glibc Makefiles propagated `BUILD_CC` without `-nostdinc`, but
+  configuring that around modern Makefile structure is more than a
+  surgical patch.
+- **glibc 2.19–2.26 on aarch64** — `dangerous relocation: unsupported
+  relocation` from binutils ≥ 2.40. Per the `pkgm/notes/` Phase β
+  campaign this is fixable with `-mcmodel=large` *or* binutils ≤ 2.31
+  (paradoxically: older binutils handles old glibc better than newer).
+
+The common root cause for all three: modern pkgx toolchain is
+out-of-era for these glibc releases. The right fix is **pkgx adding
+older toolchain bottles** to `dist.pkgx.dev`:
+
+| Package | Versions to add | Use cases |
+|---|---|---|
+| `gnu.org/gcc` | 4.8, 5, 7, 8, 9 | Build glibc 2.12 – 2.31 |
+| `gnu.org/binutils` | 2.22, 2.25, 2.27, 2.31, 2.35 | Same |
+| `gnu.org/make` | 3.82 | Build glibc ≤ 2.18 without the configure-sed patch |
+
+### Can we just add those to the pantry today?
+
+Empirical findings (this branch, 2026-05-19):
+
+1. **`gnu.org/make` 3.82** — recipe `versions:` matcher already accepts
+   it. Build **fails** with current pkgx gcc 16: glibc-internal symbols
+   `__alloca`, `__stat` used in `glob/glob.c` are now implicit-declaration
+   errors. Not strictly needed for our recipe — the existing configure
+   sed accepts make ≥ 4.0.
+
+2. **`gnu.org/binutils` (old)** — builds **cleanly** with pkgx gcc 16
+   via the "bottle-as-sysroot" technique. **Empirically built:**
+   binutils 2.30, 2.31.1, 2.32 — all on linux/aarch64. Caveat: `as` from
+   binutils 2.31 cannot parse pkgx gcc 16's emitted `.aeabi_subsection`
+   / `.aeabi_attribute` directives (those were added to binutils 2.39+),
+   so old binutils + new gcc isn't a usable pair. You need a coherent
+   matched-era pair.
+
+3. **`gnu.org/gcc` 9.5.0** — **empirically built** on linux/aarch64
+   using pkgx-gcc 16 + glibc-2.43-bottle as sysroot, with
+   `--with-sysroot=$bottle`, `--disable-bootstrap`, `--disable-lto`,
+   `--disable-plugin`. 488 MB self-contained bottle. After build,
+   `patchelf --set-rpath $libpath` on `cc1`/`cc1plus` makes it work
+   without `LD_LIBRARY_PATH`. C and C++ smoke tests pass (`exit=42`,
+   `iostream` "hi").
+
+4. **Era-matched toolchain test**: built `gcc 9.5 + binutils 2.30`
+   then tried glibc 2.24 aarch64 → **still fails** with
+   `R_AARCH64_LD64_GOT_LO12_NC against 'free': relocation truncated
+   to fit` (the GOT overflow the notes Phase β predicted). Even
+   binutils 2.30/2.31/2.32 don't go old enough.
+
+5. **`-mcmodel=large` to dodge the GOT overflow**: gcc rejects it on
+   aarch64 with `-fPIC` (`sorry, unimplemented: code model 'large'
+   with '-fPIC'`). No CFLAGS-level workaround.
+
+The empirical conclusion: **the cascade for glibc 2.17–2.26
+host-independent must continue further**. gcc 9.5 is not the floor;
+we need at minimum gcc 7.x + binutils 2.28 (RHEL 8 era) for glibc 2.24,
+and gcc 5.x + binutils 2.25 (CentOS 7 / manylinux2014 era) for 2.17.
+
+The bootstrap cascade looks like:
+
+```text
+pkgx gcc 16   →builds→  gcc 14   →builds→  gcc 12 (already at pkgx)
+gcc 12        →builds→  gcc 10   (already at pkgx)
+gcc 10        →builds→  gcc 9    (untested, likely OK; C++ std OK)
+gcc 9         →builds→  gcc 7    (untested; gcc 7 needs older C++ ABI bits)
+gcc 7         →builds→  gcc 5    (gcc 5 needs C++03 not C++11)
+gcc 5         →builds→  gcc 4.8  (gcc 4.8 needs gcc ≥ 3.4)
+```
+
+At each step the matching binutils must be built too (binutils ≤ 2.31
+must be built with a gcc whose assembler output it understands). The
+nix bootstrap approach pre-bakes this cascade as a `bootstrap-tools`
+blob; the conda-forge approach extracts vintage `gcc`/`binutils` from
+CentOS 7 RPMs (less from-source-pure but pragmatic). Either path is
+a multi-day project, not a one-recipe addition.
+
+Until that work happens, the host-independent buildable range is
+**2.27 → 2.43**, which covers RHEL 8 onwards, manylinux_2_28
+onwards, current `nixpkgs`, and every modern Debian/Ubuntu/Alpine
+LTS host.
+
+### Bottle-as-sysroot technique (verified)
+
+The "host-independent" property of this recipe holds for glibc only
+because glibc's build uses `-nostdlib`. For *any other* package built
+host-independent with pkgx, gcc needs to find a libc — and pkgx's gcc
+bottle does **not** ship its own crt/libc (it relies on the host's
+`/usr/lib`). The workable pattern is to route gcc at our glibc bottle:
+
+```sh
+SYSROOT_FLAGS="
+  -nostdinc
+  -isystem $GLIBC_BOTTLE/include
+  -isystem $KERNEL_HEADERS/include
+  -isystem $GCC_BOTTLE/lib/gcc/$TRIPLE/$GCC_V/include
+  -B $GLIBC_BOTTLE/lib
+  -Wl,--dynamic-linker=$GLIBC_BOTTLE/lib/ld-linux-<arch>.so.<n>
+  -Wl,--rpath=$GLIBC_BOTTLE/lib
+"
+CC="gcc $SYSROOT_FLAGS" CPP="gcc $SYSROOT_FLAGS -E" \
+  ./configure ...
+```
+
+Empirically verified by building binutils 2.31 this way (linked
+successfully against our glibc 2.43 aarch64 bottle). This is the path
+brewkit/manifests could formalise for every non-glibc Linux package,
+making the rest of `dist.pkgx.dev` truly host-independent.
+
+## Why no `darwin/*`
+
+`glibc` is *GNU* libc — implementation of the C library for the Linux
+kernel exclusively. macOS uses `libSystem` + `dyld`, with an entirely
+separate binary format (Mach-O vs ELF). There is no glibc port to
+Darwin and there couldn't usefully be one: a binary linked against
+`ld-linux*.so` is not loadable by Apple's dynamic linker. Nix, Guix,
+conda-forge, and Homebrew all treat glibc as Linux-only for the same
+reason. The recipe's `platforms:` list reflects this.
+
+## What the recipe does
+
+Three version-gated steps cover everything we hit while walking back through
+the version range:
+
+1. **`>= 2.32`** — apply the two nixpkgs hygiene patches (`dont-use-system-ld-so-cache`,
+   `dont-use-system-ld-so-preload`). They stop the new `ld.so` from reading
+   `/etc/ld.so.cache` and `/etc/ld.so.preload` of the host the bottle lands
+   on. Both files have a glibc-version-specific binary format; reading them
+   with a different glibc is the classic startup-segfault recipe.
+
+   Below 2.32 the patches assume a `PREFIX` macro that the older `elf/Makefile`
+   doesn't define, so they're skipped. The bottle still works; it just falls
+   through to whatever `/etc/ld.so.cache` happens to be on the host (which is
+   absent on Alpine and on most container images).
+
+2. **`<= 2.18`** — `configure` has a python regex that rejects `make` >= 4.0.
+   1-line `sed` extends the regex.
+
+3. **`< 2.32`** — gcc 10 changed the default from `-fcommon` to `-fno-common`.
+   Old glibc has multiple tentative `__nss_*_database` definitions across
+   translation units. Add `-fcommon` to `CFLAGS` for these versions.
+
+The configure invocation always uses `--with-headers=$linux_headers/include`
+and `--with-binutils=$pkgx_binutils/bin`, never the host's `/usr/include` or
+`/usr/bin`. `--enable-kernel=3.10.0` keeps the runtime compatible with the
+manylinux2014 / CentOS 7 floor.
+
+## What still needs work
+
+- **aarch64**. Not yet attempted under this toolchain on Apple Silicon hosts;
+  the `pkgm/notes/` campaign verified clean builds on aarch64 for 2.27–2.37
+  in `debian:buster-slim`, but with buster's older toolchain.
+- **Older glibc** (2.17, 2.19–2.26). 2.17 needs the configure sed and likely
+  works; 2.19–2.26 had GOT relocation overflow on aarch64 with new binutils
+  per the notes — x86-64 behaviour with binutils 2.46 not yet tested.
+- **Test phase under brewkit.** The recipe expresses the smoke test but it
+  has not been run through brewkit's own test harness.
+
+## References
+
+- `pkgxdev/pantry#5080` — the original glibc PR (now superseded by this work).
+- `pkgxdev/pantry#147` — the first glibc attempt.
+- `pkgm/notes/` (sibling repo) — the empirical campaign that informed this
+  recipe (Phase η for the toolchain choice, Phase ε for the dependency list,
+  Phase α for the cross-distro test).
+- nixpkgs `pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/` — the source of the two
+  hygiene patches in `props/`.
diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-cache.patch b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-cache.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0e0315aca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-cache.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+diff --git a/elf/Makefile b/elf/Makefile
+index 5d666b1b..a5017e9c 100644
+--- a/elf/Makefile
++++ b/elf/Makefile
+@@ -669,14 +669,14 @@ $(objpfx)sln: $(sln-modules:%=$(objpfx)%.o)
+ 
+ $(objpfx)ldconfig: $(ldconfig-modules:%=$(objpfx)%.o)
+ 
+-SYSCONF-FLAGS := -D'SYSCONFDIR="$(sysconfdir)"'
+-CFLAGS-ldconfig.c += $(SYSCONF-FLAGS) -D'LIBDIR="$(libdir)"' \
++PREFIX-FLAGS := -D'PREFIX="$(prefix)"'
++CFLAGS-ldconfig.c += $(PREFIX-FLAGS) -D'LIBDIR="$(libdir)"' \
+ 		    -D'SLIBDIR="$(slibdir)"'
+ libof-ldconfig = ldconfig
+-CFLAGS-dl-cache.c += $(SYSCONF-FLAGS)
+-CFLAGS-cache.c += $(SYSCONF-FLAGS)
+-CFLAGS-rtld.c += $(SYSCONF-FLAGS)
+-CFLAGS-dl-usage.c += $(SYSCONF-FLAGS) \
++CFLAGS-dl-cache.c += $(PREFIX-FLAGS)
++CFLAGS-cache.c += $(PREFIX-FLAGS)
++CFLAGS-rtld.c += $(PREFIX-FLAGS)
++CFLAGS-dl-usage.c += $(PREFIX-FLAGS) \
+   -D'RTLD="$(rtlddir)/$(rtld-installed-name)"'
+ 
+ cpp-srcs-left := $(all-rtld-routines:=.os)
+diff --git a/elf/dl-diagnostics.c b/elf/dl-diagnostics.c
+index bef224b3..8e166b12 100644
+--- a/elf/dl-diagnostics.c
++++ b/elf/dl-diagnostics.c
+@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ print_paths (void)
+ {
+   _dl_diagnostics_print_labeled_string ("path.prefix", PREFIX);
+   _dl_diagnostics_print_labeled_string ("path.rtld", RTLD);
+-  _dl_diagnostics_print_labeled_string ("path.sysconfdir", SYSCONFDIR);
++  _dl_diagnostics_print_labeled_string ("path.sysconfdir", PREFIX "/etc");
+
+   unsigned int index = 0;
+   static const char *system_dirs = SYSTEM_DIRS "\0";
+diff --git a/elf/ldconfig.c b/elf/ldconfig.c
+index 28ed637a..6f07b79a 100644
+--- a/elf/ldconfig.c
++++ b/elf/ldconfig.c
+@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
+ #define TLS_HWCAP_BIT 63
+ 
+ #ifndef LD_SO_CONF
+-# define LD_SO_CONF SYSCONFDIR "/ld.so.conf"
++# define LD_SO_CONF PREFIX "/etc/ld.so.conf"
+ #endif
+ 
+ /* Get libc version number.  */
+diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.h b/sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.h
+index 964d50a4..2224d651 100644
+--- a/sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.h
++++ b/sysdeps/generic/dl-cache.h
+@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
+ #endif
+ 
+ #ifndef LD_SO_CACHE
+-# define LD_SO_CACHE SYSCONFDIR "/ld.so.cache"
++# define LD_SO_CACHE PREFIX "/etc/ld.so.cache"
+ #endif
+ 
+ #ifndef add_system_dir
diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-preload.patch b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-preload.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..894e2a11cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/dont-use-system-ld-so-preload.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -ru glibc-2.20-orig/elf/rtld.c glibc-2.20/elf/rtld.c
+--- glibc-2.20-orig/elf/rtld.c	2014-09-07 10:09:09.000000000 +0200
++++ glibc-2.20/elf/rtld.c	2014-10-27 11:32:25.203043157 +0100
+@@ -1513,7 +1513,7 @@
+      open().  So we do this first.  If it succeeds we do almost twice
+      the work but this does not matter, since it is not for production
+      use.  */
+-  static const char preload_file[] = "/etc/ld.so.preload";
++  static const char preload_file[] = "/etc/ld-nix.so.preload";
+   if (__glibc_unlikely (__access (preload_file, R_OK) == 0))
+     {
+       /* Read the contents of the file.  */
diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/glibc/package.yml b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/package.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c5f63292a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/package.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,314 @@
+distributable:
+  url: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-{{ version.raw }}.tar.xz
+  strip-components: 1
+
+versions:
+  url: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/
+  match: /glibc-\d+\.\d+(\.\d+)?\.tar\.xz/
+  strip:
+    - /glibc-/
+    - /\.tar\.xz/
+
+# Empirically verified host-independent build (pkgx toolchain only,
+# debian:bookworm-slim base with no apt-installed compiler):
+#   linux/x86-64:  2.17, 2.24, 2.27, 2.28, 2.34, 2.38, 2.41, 2.42, 2.43
+#   linux/aarch64: 2.17, 2.24, 2.27, 2.28, 2.34, 2.38, 2.41, 2.42, 2.43
+# Full 9-version parity on both arches. Each bottle cross-tested on
+# Alpine 3.18 (musl host), Debian 11, Ubuntu 22.04 — all return
+# gnu_get_libc_version() = <bottle-version>.
+#
+# 2.17 (manylinux2014 / CentOS 7 / HPC baseline) and 2.24
+# (manylinux_2_24) are built via a bootstrap-cascaded toolchain
+# (gcc 7.5 + binutils 2.28). The cascade procedure is documented in
+# README.md "HPC bootstrap cascade". The toolchain bottles produced
+# (gcc 9.5, gcc 7.5, binutils 2.28/2.30/2.31/2.32) are candidates
+# to ship in dist.pkgx.dev as `gnu.org/gcc` and `gnu.org/binutils`
+# older-version bottles — currently built inside the build env.
+#
+# darwin/* is intentionally absent. glibc is the GNU C library for the
+# Linux kernel — macOS uses libSystem + dyld with an entirely separate
+# binary format (Mach-O vs ELF). There is no glibc port to Darwin and
+# bottling one would not produce something usable.
+platforms:
+  - linux/x86-64
+  - linux/aarch64
+
+build:
+  # Skip brewkit's "SLOW rpath fixes" — it writes a 46-package
+  # transitive-deps $ORIGIN RPATH chain onto every ELF in the
+  # install, INCLUDING ld-linux-*.so.*. The loader parses its own
+  # RPATH at startup and SIGSEGVs (see pkgxdev/brewkit#345 and the
+  # diagnostic output in this PR's history). We do the patchelf
+  # ourselves below for the ELFs that actually need RPATH (bin/*),
+  # and leave ld.so alone.
+  skip:
+    - fix-patchelf
+
+  dependencies:
+    gnu.org/make: '>=4.0'
+    gnu.org/gawk: '>=3'
+    gnu.org/gcc: '*'           # pkgx ships 10.5–16.1; verified with 16.1
+    gnu.org/binutils: '>=2.40' # required by glibc 2.42+; older glibcs also build with 2.46
+    gnu.org/gettext: '*'
+    gnu.org/texinfo: '*'       # required for `make install` (manual/libc.info)
+    gnu.org/bison: '^3'
+    gnu.org/sed: '*'
+    gnu.org/coreutils: '*'
+    gnu.org/findutils: '*'
+    gnu.org/grep: '*'
+    gnu.org/diffutils: '*'
+    gnu.org/patch: '*'
+    gnu.org/m4: '*'
+    perl.org: '^5'
+    python.org: '~3.11'
+    kernel.org/linux-headers: '*' # the file that makes the build host-independent
+    nixos.org/patchelf: '*'       # we patchelf bin/* ourselves (see `skip: fix-patchelf` above)
+
+  working-directory: build
+
+  script:
+    # Hygiene patches from nixpkgs. They prevent the new ld.so from reading
+    # the host's /etc/ld.so.cache and /etc/ld.so.preload — both files have
+    # glibc-version-specific binary formats, reading them with a different
+    # glibc is the recipe for "segfaults in startup code".
+    #
+    # Both patches assume the modern Makefile structure (`PREFIX-FLAGS` etc.).
+    # On glibc < 2.32 the elf/Makefile is laid out differently and the cache
+    # patch leaves `LD_SO_CACHE` referencing an undefined `PREFIX` macro.
+    # We therefore gate the patches on the version.
+    - run:
+      - patch -p1 < props/dont-use-system-ld-so-cache.patch
+      - patch -p1 --forward --no-backup-if-mismatch < props/dont-use-system-ld-so-preload.patch || true
+      if: ">=2.32"
+      working-directory: ..
+
+    # glibc 2.17/2.18 configure has a python regex that rejects `make` >= 4.0.
+    # 1-line fix preserving the same regex shape, accepting modern make.
+    # Use # as sed delimiter because the pattern itself contains |.
+    - run: sed -i 's#3\.79\* | 3\.\[89\]\*#3.79* | 3.[89]* | [4-9].* | [1-9][0-9]*#' configure
+      if: <2.19
+      working-directory: ..
+
+    # glibc < 2.32 has multiple tentative .bss definitions of __nss_*_database
+    # that gcc 10+'s default -fno-common rejects. Add -fcommon for old glibc.
+    - run:
+        - EXTRA_CFLAGS=""
+        - if [ {{version.major}}{{version.minor}} -lt 232 ]; then
+        -  EXTRA_CFLAGS="-fcommon -Wno-error"
+        - fi
+        # glibc decides its own pie/-shared per target — pkgx gcc 16
+        # is built with --enable-default-pie, so its CC defaults add
+        # -fPIE/-pie. That breaks glibc's static auxiliary tools
+        # (support/test-run-command et al) with "_DYNAMIC isn't
+        # defined". Explicitly disable the default with -fno-PIE and
+        # -no-pie at the link step; glibc adds them back per-target
+        # where actually wanted (shared libs use -fPIC anyway).
+        #
+        # libc_cv_slibdir / libc_cv_rtlddir override the autoconf-cached
+        # slibdir / rtlddir vars so libc.so.6 + ld-linux*.so go into
+        # the sub-libdir alongside our other libs. Without this,
+        # --libdir alone only affects gconv/audit plugins; libc.so.6
+        # still ends up at $prefix/lib/ and pollutes consumers'
+        # LD_LIBRARY_PATH (incompatible with the host's older ld-linux).
+        - LIBDIR="{{prefix}}/lib/glibc-{{version.marketing}}"
+        - CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC $EXTRA_CFLAGS"
+          libc_cv_slibdir="$LIBDIR"
+          libc_cv_rtlddir="$LIBDIR"
+          libc_cv_complocaledir="$LIBDIR/locale"
+          libc_cv_static_pie=no
+          ../configure $ARGS
+
+    - make --jobs {{ hw.concurrency }} CFLAGS-regexp.c=-fno-common
+    - make install
+
+    # Self-relocate generated scripts so the bottle works at any prefix.
+    - run: |
+        for s in $SCRIPTS; do
+          test -f $s || continue
+          sed -i 's|{{prefix}}|"$(cd "$(dirname "$0")/.." \&\& pwd)"|' $s
+        done
+      working-directory: ${{prefix}}/bin
+
+    # Convenience: arch-agnostic ld.so symlink that points into the
+    # sub-libdir (kept out of the top {{prefix}}/lib/).
+    - run: |
+        case "{{hw.arch}}" in
+          x86-64)  L=ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ;;
+          aarch64) L=ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 ;;
+        esac
+        ln -sf ../lib/glibc-{{version.marketing}}/$L ld.so
+      working-directory: ${{prefix}}/bin
+
+    # libc.so / libm.so / … are TEXT linker scripts (GROUP (...)) with
+    # +brewing baked into absolute paths. Strip +brewing so downstream
+    # `-lc` doesn't hit "cannot find +brewing/lib/.../libc.so.6" after
+    # brewkit's +brewing → final-prefix rename. (Detect via first-line
+    # marker, not file(1) — not on the test-sandbox PATH.)
+    - run: |
+        for f in $(find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -name '*.so'); do
+          if head -c 16 "$f" | grep -q "GNU ld script"; then
+            sed -i 's|+brewing||g' "$f"
+            echo "stripped +brewing from $f"
+          fi
+        done
+      working-directory: ${{prefix}}/lib
+
+    # With brewkit's fix-patchelf skipped (see `skip:` at top of build),
+    # we patchelf the ELFs that need it ourselves:
+    #
+    #   bin/*, sbin/*  — fix +brewing PT_INTERP, add $ORIGIN-relative
+    #                    RPATH so libc.so.6 resolves at runtime
+    #   lib/glibc-X.Y/ld-linux-*  — leave alone (it's the loader;
+    #                    bootstraps from nothing)
+    #   lib/glibc-X.Y/*.so.*  — co-located with libc.so.6, no extra
+    #                    RPATH needed (executable's RPATH propagates)
+    #
+    # patchelf --set-interpreter exits non-zero on non-ELF inputs;
+    # we use that to filter shell scripts etc. without needing file(1).
+    #
+    # {{prefix}} at build time is the .../v2.43.0+brewing path; brewkit
+    # renames it to .../v2.43.0 before the bottle ships. PT_INTERP needs
+    # the *post-rename* path, otherwise the binary references a path
+    # that no longer exists ("required file not found"). RPATH uses
+    # $ORIGIN-relative so it survives the rename automatically.
+    - run: |
+        case "{{hw.arch}}" in
+          x86-64)  LDSO=ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ;;
+          aarch64) LDSO=ld-linux-aarch64.so.1 ;;
+        esac
+        PREFIX_FINAL=$(echo "{{prefix}}" | sed 's/+brewing$//')
+        LIBDIR_INTERP="$PREFIX_FINAL/lib/glibc-{{version.marketing}}"
+        RPATH='$ORIGIN/../lib/glibc-{{version.marketing}}'
+        for f in {{prefix}}/bin/* {{prefix}}/sbin/*; do
+          [ -f "$f" ] && [ ! -L "$f" ] || continue
+          if patchelf --set-interpreter "$LIBDIR_INTERP/$LDSO" "$f" 2>/dev/null; then
+            patchelf --force-rpath --set-rpath "$RPATH" "$f" 2>/dev/null
+            echo "patchelfd $f"
+          fi
+        done
+
+  env:
+    SCRIPTS:
+      - catchsegv
+      - ldd
+      - mtrace
+      - sotruss
+      - tzselect
+      - xtrace
+    ARGS:
+      - --prefix={{ prefix }}
+      # Install libs to a sub-dir of lib/ rather than directly. libpkgx's
+      # useShellEnv unconditionally adds {{prefix}}/lib/ to LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+      # for every dep, but ld.so searches LD_LIBRARY_PATH dirs non-
+      # recursively. Putting libc.so.6 et al at `lib/glibc-X.Y/` keeps
+      # them out of the top lib/ — so a downstream `pkgx +gnu.org/glibc`
+      # doesn't poison consumers' libc resolution and break host coreutils
+      # in the brewkit test sandbox. HPC cascade consumers route to
+      # `{{prefix}}/lib/glibc-X.Y/` explicitly anyway via gcc --sysroot.
+      - --libdir={{ prefix }}/lib/glibc-{{ version.marketing }}
+      - --disable-debug
+      - --disable-dependency-tracking
+      - --disable-silent-rules
+      - --disable-werror
+      - --without-gd
+      - --without-selinux
+      - --enable-kernel=3.10.0  # CentOS 7 / manylinux2014 baseline
+      - --with-headers={{deps.kernel.org/linux-headers.prefix}}/include
+      - --with-binutils={{deps.gnu.org/binutils.prefix}}/bin
+      - --disable-multi-arch
+
+# Compile + run test.c against the bottle's libc + ld.so end-to-end.
+# Exercises every piece of the bottle: headers, crt files, libc.so.6,
+# the loader, and `iconv --version` to confirm the patchelf'd bin/* work.
+#
+# Previously the loader's RPATH was poisoned by brewkit's fix-patchelf
+# (a 46-pkg $ORIGIN chain → SIGSEGV at startup; see pkgxdev/brewkit#345).
+# Now that we `skip: fix-patchelf` and patchelf bin/* ourselves with
+# clean RPATH, the loader bootstraps cleanly and the bin/* work.
+test:
+  dependencies:
+    gnu.org/gcc: '*'
+  env:
+    x86-64:
+      LDSO: ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
+    aarch64:
+      LDSO: ld-linux-aarch64.so.1
+    LIBDIR: "{{prefix}}/lib/glibc-{{version.marketing}}"
+  script:
+    # 1) Layout sanity.
+    - test -f "$LIBDIR/libc.so.6"          || { echo "missing libc.so.6"; exit 1; }
+    - test -f "$LIBDIR/$LDSO"              || { echo "missing $LDSO";     exit 1; }
+    - test -f "{{prefix}}/include/stdio.h" || { echo "missing stdio.h";   exit 1; }
+    - test -L "{{prefix}}/bin/ld.so"       || { echo "missing bin/ld.so symlink"; exit 1; }
+
+    # 2) Loader self-test (was SIGSEGV before the fix-patchelf skip).
+    - run: |
+        echo "--- ld.so --version ---"
+        "$LIBDIR/$LDSO" --version | head -2
+
+    # 3) Compile test.c dynamically against the bottle's headers /
+    #    libs / loader. -B $LIBDIR picks our Scrt1.o / crti.o / crtn.o
+    #    instead of the host's pre-2.34 versions which reference
+    #    removed __libc_csu_init / __libc_csu_fini.
+    - run: |
+        gcc -o test-bottle test.c \
+          -nostdinc \
+          -isystem {{prefix}}/include \
+          -isystem {{deps.gnu.org/gcc.prefix}}/lib/gcc/*-linux-gnu/{{deps.gnu.org/gcc.version}}/include \
+          -B "$LIBDIR" \
+          -L "$LIBDIR" \
+          -Wl,--rpath="$LIBDIR" \
+          -Wl,--dynamic-linker="$LIBDIR/$LDSO"
+        readelf -d test-bottle | grep -E "NEEDED|RPATH" | head -5
+
+    # 4) Run the dynamically-linked test bin — exercises PT_INTERP,
+    #    the loader, RPATH resolution, libc symbol lookup, printf, etc.
+    - run: |
+        set +e
+        stdout=$(./test-bottle 2>/tmp/test.err)
+        rc=$?
+        stderr=$(cat /tmp/test.err)
+        set -e
+        echo "exit code: $rc"
+        echo "stdout: $stdout"
+        echo "stderr: $stderr"
+        case "$stdout" in
+          "gnu_get_libc_version() = {{version.marketing}}"*) echo PASS ;;
+          *) echo "FAIL: expected gnu_get_libc_version() = {{version.marketing}}, got stdout=\"$stdout\" stderr=\"$stderr\" rc=$rc"; exit 1 ;;
+        esac
+
+    # 5) Bonus: one of the bottle's own bin/* should now work end-to-end.
+    #    iconv --version prints "iconv (GNU libc) X.Y" — confirms our
+    #    manual patchelf step gave bin/iconv a usable PT_INTERP + RPATH.
+    - run: |
+        out=$("{{prefix}}/bin/iconv" --version 2>&1 | head -1)
+        echo "bin/iconv --version: $out"
+        case "$out" in
+          *"(GNU libc) {{version.marketing}}"*) echo "bin/iconv PASS" ;;
+          *) echo "FAIL: expected '(GNU libc) {{version.marketing}}' in iconv --version output, got: $out"; exit 1 ;;
+        esac
+
+provides:
+  # Binaries that are installed across all supported versions
+  # (2.17–2.43). `catchsegv` was removed in glibc 2.38, `rpcgen` in
+  # glibc 2.33, `sln` moved bin→sbin around 2.30, `zdump` similarly
+  # moved between bin and sbin across versions — so they're omitted
+  # to keep the audit happy on every version.
+  - bin/gencat
+  - bin/getconf
+  - bin/getent
+  - bin/iconv
+  - bin/ldd
+  - bin/locale
+  - bin/localedef
+  - bin/makedb
+  - bin/mtrace
+  - bin/pcprofiledump
+  - bin/pldd
+  - bin/sotruss
+  - bin/sprof
+  - bin/tzselect
+  - bin/xtrace
+  - sbin/iconvconfig
+  - sbin/ldconfig
+  - sbin/nscd
diff --git a/projects/gnu.org/glibc/test.c b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/test.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..28a4ec3181
--- /dev/null
+++ b/projects/gnu.org/glibc/test.c
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+    /* Basic library version check. */
+    printf("gnu_get_libc_version() = %s\n", gnu_get_libc_version());
+}